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Shagoury, Ruth – Young Children, 2009
The author spent four years embedded in a multilingual kindergarten classroom in which children spoke six different languages and several more years observing multilingual Head Start classrooms. She shares numerous examples of young dual language learners actively figuring out the way written language works in their first and second languages.…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Written Language, Writing Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth
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Ritchey, Kristen D. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2006
Teachers now have a wide range of tools to help assess the beginning reading performance of kindergarten and first-grade children. However, validated procedures for assessing the beginning writing skills of kindergarten and first-grade children are less widely available. Learning to write, like learning to read, is a complex task. The ability to…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Letters (Correspondence), Beginning Writing, Spelling
Martens, Prisca – 1996
Noting that children's perceptions of literacy and of themselves as learners differ from those of adults, this book documents how Sarah, from the ages of 2 to 5 years, understood literacy and invented reading and writing for herself. Numerous reading and writing samples in the book, organized around broad research questions, present Sarah as an…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Case Studies, Childhood Attitudes
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Chapman, Marilyn L. – Young Children, 1996
Discusses the developmental aspects of the relationship between speech and print and examines the debate as to whether first-grade students acquire phonemic awareness by reading and writing the language or whether that awareness is best arrived at by direct teaching of phonics. Presents case study of one first grader's literacy development. (ET)
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Case Studies, Elementary School Curriculum, Emergent Literacy